A modern history of New Haven and eastern New Haven County, Vol. II, Part 56

Author: Hill, Everett Gleason, 1867- [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 986

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WALTER P. JUDSON.

In the field of law practice Walter P. Judson has made a creditable position. He was born December 30, 1869, in New Haven, where he is now actively and successfully engaged in practice. He comes of English ancestry, the American progenitor of the family, who was of English birth, settling first at Concord, Massachusetts, in 1634, but in 1639 the family removed to Stratford, Connecticut, being among the first settlers of that town. Charles E. Judson, father of Walter P. Judson, was born in South Britain, Connecticut, and afterward became a merchant of New Haven, where he passed away in 1898, at the age of sixty-six years. His wife, Mrs. Martha J. (Parmelee) Judson, who was born in New Haven, departed this life the previous year, when sixty-four years of age.

In a family of five children Walter P. Judson was the third, the others being Charles WV., a resident of North Branford, Connecticut; Homer L., living at Woodbridge, Connecticut; Jerome T., who is at Pomona, Los Angeles county, California; and Ada B., also in Pomona. His high school course was supplemented by academic study at Yale, from which he was graduated with the class of 1893. His law studies were also there pursued to his gradua- tion as a member of the class of 1896.

Immediately afterward Mr. Judson began practice in New Haven, where he has since remained, and in the intervening years his practice has steadily grown in volume and impor- tance. He carefully prepares his cases, and his thoroughness and his force in argument are salient features in winning for him many of the favorable verdicts of which the court records bear testimony. He is well known as a member of the New Haven, the New Haven County and the American Bar Associations and he enjoys the high regard, of his profes- sional brethren to an unusual degree. He belongs to the Union League Club and to Trinity Methodist Episcopal church.

ALBERT BUXTON REED.

Albert B. Reed is president of the Belden Machine Company, one of the reliable manufac- turing institutions of New Haven, which has for fifty years been a feature in the business life of the city, standing up well under the strain of all the country's financial panics and meeting the various vicissitudes thereby imposed. The company is engaged in the manufacture of drop forgings and hardware specialties and the progressive and straightforward policy inaugurated by the company has been maintained to the present time, when Albert B. Reed is efficiently controlling its affairs. He was born in Ontario, Canada, September 30, 1852, and is a son of Thomas B. and Letitia (Ellison) Reed. The mother was born in Danbury, Connecti- cut, while the father was a native of England and as a young man went to Canada, where he engaged in cabinet making. In 1859 he removed to Danbury, Connecticut, where he continued to work at his trade until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he joined the army as a mem-

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ber of Company B of the First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, serving throughout the entire period of hostilities, after which he returned to Connecticut and resumed cabinet making. His wife passed away in New Haven in 1907.

Albert B. Reed is the sole survivor of their family of three children. In his boyhood he attended the schools of Danbury and when twenty-two years of age embarked in business on his own account as a grocer. He continued in that line for twenty years and won a substantial measure of prosperity, but at length misfortune overtook him and the entire savings of two decades were swept away. He then came to New Haven, in 1897, to make a new start and in June of that year became connected with the Belden Machine Company, which forty-seven years ago had been established by R. A. Belden shortly after the close of the Civil war. It is today in a more prosperous condition than at any period of its history and is one of the most reliable manufacturing concerns of the city. Mr. Reed became connected therewith as seere- tary, in which capacity he continued until the death of Mr. Belden in 1899, when he was made president and general manager. Under his direction the business has steadily grown and developed and the plant is now being run to its full capacity in the manufacture of drop forg- ings and hardware specialties.

In May, 1881, Mr. Reed was married to Miss Alice A. Belden, of Danbury, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Belden, the former the organizer of the Belden Machine Company. Mr. and Mrs. Reed have a son, Russell A., who was born in Danbury, was graduated from the New Haven high school and is now in business with his father as secretary of the Belden Machine Company. Ile is a member of the New Haven Grays and the Naval Reserve Corps, is a Mason and is identified with a number of clubs of the city.

In politics Albert B. Reed maintains an independent course. Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with the Red Men. He belongs to the Cham- ber of Commerce and to the Civic Association and is interested in all the plans and projects which have been organized for the development of the city and the upbuilding of civic stand- ards. He also belongs to the Edgewood Club and is a consistent member of St. James Episcopal church, of which he is serving as vestryman. Mr. Reed's life record indicates what may be accomplished through determination and indefatigable industry. Since coming to New Haven he has not only retrieved bis lost fortune but has won a most substantial meas- ure of success and as the years have gone on he has gained recognition as one of the foremost business men of the city, winning the respect of all with whom he has been associated.

MORRIS RICE.

Morris Rice, manager in New Haven for the United States Life Insurance Company of New York, was born May 16, 1879, in Horodenka. Austria, a son of the late Bernard Rice, who was a native of that country and a watchmaker by trade. He met with a tragic death at the invasion of Austria by the Russian cossacks soon after the outbreak of the present war. The news of his demise, which occurred in July, 1915, when he was seventy-five years of age, was sent his son Morris by the American ambassador to Austria through the state department at Washington. His wife bore the maiden name of Deborah Edelstein and is still living in Austria. She had five children.

Morris Rice, who was the third of the family, was educated in the public schools and the high school of his native city and when eighteen years of age started out to earn his own living, serving an apprenticeship to the watchmaker's trade under the direction of his father. He continued to engage in that business until 1909. In December, 1900, he had come to America and had spent the first year in New York. He then removed to Water- bury, where he was employed by the Waterbury Clock Company for one year. He later came to New Haven and entered the employ of the New Haven Clock Company, with which he continued for three years, and then returned to Waterbury, where he engaged in a similar line of work until 1909. He retired from that field of activity to enter the employ of the Metropolitan Insurance Company on the 22d of February and continued as agent for that company for eighteen months, after which he was appointed deputy superintendent and filled the position until 1916, when he resigned and became connected with the United States Insurance Company as general manager for New Haven county. In this position he has since

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been active and has carefully directed and developed the interests of the business in his territory. He has the agency for New Haven county, employs five solicitors, and his business is in volume equal to that of any other life insurance company represented in this county.

On the 10th of June, 1906, in New Haven, Mr. Rice was married to Miss Lillie Kre- veitzky, a native of Russia and a daughter of Aaron and Rose (Stein) Kreveitzky, both of whom have been residents of New Haven since they came to America about 1898. Mr. and Mrs. Rice have become the parents of three children: Alfred, born in Waterbury, March 5, 1907; Milton, born in New Haven, October 6, 1911; and Beatrice, born May 10, 1916.

Mr. Rice is president of the Merchants Protective Association of New Haven. In 1909 he became a naturalized American citizen and since obtaining the right of franchise he has cast an independent ballot. He belongs to the Knights of Israel, to the I. O. B. A, and to the I. O. B. B. He also belongs to the Independent Connecticut Lodge, the Young Men's Hebrew Association and has been very active in the Workmen's Circle. He was one of the promoters of the Labor Lyceum, took a very helpful part in the erection of its building and is one of its trustees. He came to America a poor boy and owes his success to his perseverance and diligence.

JACOB WINCHELL EVERETT.

Jacob Winchell Everett is president of the Connecticut Fat Rendering and Fertilizing Corporation and is also active in the business circles of New Haven as head of the grocery and market firm of J. W. Everett & Son. His life is one of intense and well directed activity, purposeful and resultant. He was born in. Ulster county, New York, February 22, 1863, a son of Henry Everett, a native of New York and a representative of an old New York family of English lineage. He came from the same ancestry as Hon. Edward Everett, of whom he was a distant relative. Throughout his life Henry Everett was active in educational circles, as were many others of the family. He died in May, 1872, and after his death his widow, became a resident of New Haven, where she died in September, 1917. She bore the maiden name of Phoebe Winchell and was a native of New York and a daughter of the Rev. Jacob Winchell, a Baptist clergyman, who belonged to one of the old and prominent fam- ilies of the Empire state, of Dutch descent. Mr. and Mrs. Everett became the parents of six children, four of whom are living: Ella, who is now Mrs. Edwin A. Morris; Jacob Win- chell; Edward D., a grocer of New Haven; and William H., also of this city.

Jacob Winchell Everett was a pupil in the public schools of his native connty to the age of ten years, after which he was employed at farm labor to the age of fourteen. He then removed to New Haven in November, 1877, and learned the pattern maker's trade with the Peck Brothers Company, with which he remained from 1877 until 1887. In the latter year he became general secretary for the Young Men's Christian Association at Alexandria, Virginia, occupying that position until November, 1888, when he returned to New Haven and opened a store for the sale of groceries and meat. In this business he has since eon- tinued successfully, occupying his present store at the corner of York and Crown streets for twenty-nine years. Its neat and tasteful arrangement, his reasonable prices, the courteous treatment accorded patrons and his straightforward business methods have been the salient factors in his growing snecess. He is also the president of the Connectieut Fat Rendering and Fertilizing Corporation, a large and growing cooperative industry, which has a complete and splendidly equipped plant at Allingtown. This company was incorporated in October, 1902, and capitalized for one hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Everett as president of this company has done much to promote its success. He is a member of the Butchers Protective Association.

He has been married twice. On the 8th of November, 1884, at Morris Cove, Connecti- cut, he wedded Hattie HI. Morris, a daughter of the late Julius H. Morris, who was a descend- ant of an old and prominent family and who passed away in August, 1917, at the advanced age of ninety-five years. Mrs. Everett passed away in New Haven in 1910 at the age of fifty-two, leaving five children: Ray H., born February 17, 1886; Herbert L., born in Novem- ber, 1887, at Alexandria, Virginia; Ethel M., who was born December 18, 1890, and is the wife of W. Purdue Johnson, of New Haven; Edward B., who was born January 8, 1899, and

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died in 1916; and Sidney M., who was born February 1, 1901. The eldest son is a graduate of Yale of the class of 1907, at which time he won the LL. B. degree, and he is now practicing law in New York city. The second son, Herbert L., is in partnership with his father in the grocery and market. On the 15th of July, 1915, Mr. Everett was again married, his second union being with Mrs. Ida May (Moe) Baker, a native of Brooklyn, New York, and a daugh- ter of H. R. and Alma (Everett) Moe.

Mr. Everett belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and is interested in all that pertains to the welfare and upbuilding of the city. He is also a member of the First Methodist church and takes an active and helpful part in its work. In politics he is a republican and on his party ticket was elected a member of the common conneil from the second ward for one term. The man is fortunate who has back of him an ancestry honorable and distinguished. Mr. Everett comes of a family who have made a notable record in educational circles. While he has directed his efforts in other lines, he manifests the sterling traits of character which have been seen throughout the family in different generations. When he came to New Haven his cash capital consisted of three dollars. A stranger in a strange city, necessity compelled him to find immediate employment. This he did and he early showed conspicuously the traits of character which have made his life a prosperous one. He performed all the duties that devolved upon him, however humble and though small the recompense. conscien- tiously and industriously, and advance followed as a natural sequence. His strict integrity, business conservatism and judgment have always been so uniformly recognized that he has enjoyed public confidence in an enviable degree and has naturally received a liberal patronage.

WILLIAM N. LINDSAY.

William N. Lindsay, president of the Lindsay Auto Supply Company of New Haven, was born March 6, 1880, in Arbroath, Scotland, and is a son of Adam S. Lindsay, who is also a native of that country, whence he came to America in 1884, settling in Andover, Massachusetts, where he is now engaged in the manufacture of rubber tires, druggists' sundries and mechanical goods. He married Ellen Miller, who was also born in the land of hills and heather, and she also survives.

William N. Lindsay was the seventh in their family of nine children. Brought to America when but four years of age, he completed his education in the high school of Andover, Massachusetts, and started out to earn his own living at the age of sixteen years. He was first employed in a rubber factory, where he remained for three years, after which he was apprenticed to learn the butcher's trade, which he also followed for three years. He then entered the railroad car shops, starting as a clerk, and advanced through various promotions to the position of general foreman at Somerville, Massachusetts. On leaving the employ of the Boston & Maine Railroad he became connected with the Iver- Johnson Sporting Goods Company of Boston, first in the hieycle department and afterward in the auto supply department, being the company's first salesman. He remained with that house for three years and then became branch manager of the Angier Company of Boston, in the same line. maintaining this connection for two years. He next established the Bi-Motor Equipment Company of Boston, and managed the same for ten months. Later he was with the Warner Instrument Company of Boston, for which he traveled through Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and western Massachusetts. The following October he entered the employ of the Post & Lester Company of Boston as city salesman and after six months was transferred to New Haven as local manager, continuing there until October, 1914, when he established his present business in New Haven. He first arrived in this city in May, 1910. The business was established at No. 1088 Chapel street and was conducted by Mr. Lindsay individually until November 1. 1916, when it was incorporated. Before this. in March, 1916, it was removed to its present quarters at No. 1084 Chapel street, there securing the larger space needed for the growing business. The Lindsay Auto Supply Company handles a com- plete line of auto tires and supplies and is one of the leading firms of the kind in the city, Mr. Lindsay being its president and directing head. The other members of the firm are: R. B. Lamson, treasurer, and George D. Ford, secretary. The business was begun on a small scale but has increased tenfold and is growing day by day. The company now employs, on

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an average, fourteen people in its store and show rooms, which are arranged in the most practical, modern and attractive manner. The store and ware rooms have a floor space of over sixteen thousand square feet. with an equal amount of room in the basement.

In polities Mr. Lindsay is a republican and fraternally he is connected with New Haven Lodge No. 25, B. P. O. E., and with the Odd Fellows lodge at Andover, Massachusetts. He also has membership in the Free church at Andover, Massachusetts, while his family attend Plymouth church of New Haven. He is also identified with the Chamber of Commerce of New Haven.

On the 8th of March, 1911, Mr. Lindsay was married in Andover to Miss Alice Leslie, a native of that place and a daughter of David and Catherine (Brown) Leslie, who were natives of Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay have become the parents of three children: Catherine, born October 2, 1912; William N., January 5, 1914; and Howard Leslie, born in September, 1916. Mr. Lindsay is a self-made man and one whose business record is most creditable and commendable, thereby demonstrating what may be accomplished when land- able ambition points the way and determined purpose perseveres therein.

CLARENCE MI. PARKER.

Clarence M. Parker. an optometrist of New Haven, was born in Oriskany Falls. Oneida county, New York, March 23, 1857, his parents being Isaac J. and Martha (Davis) Parker. The father was born in Johnsons Farms, Wallingford, Connecticut, while the mother was a native of New York and in that state they were married. In later life the father engaged in the manufacture of shoes, but at the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted for service in the One Hundred and Forty-Sixth New York Vohinteer Infantry and participated in a number of the most important battles, until at last he was taken prisoner. He was con- fined for a time in Libby prison and it was reported that he had died but instead he had been transferred to Andersonville, where he and other soldiers were imprisoned until long after the surrender of General Robert E. Lee. At length he was released and returned home to his people, who could scarcely recognize him so emaciated had he become and broken down by disease. His entire form and features had become changed by his long and tor- tuous confinement and being unable to take up his former business he settled on a farm in New York, devoting his remaining days to general agricultural pursuits. He passed away November 3, 1893, at Oriskany Falls, his death being the ultimate outcome of disease contracted in the army. His wife had died in Oriskany Falls about April, 1857. In their family were two children, of whom John O. died in New York state in 1883 and was laid to rest by the side of his parents in Oneida county.

Clarence M. Parker attended the schools in his native state and was employed in farm work until 1874, when he left home and removed to Meriden, Connecticut. He was then a youth of seventeen years and found employment in the factory of the Edward Miller Company, where he remained for six years. He next went upon the road as a traveling salesman, selling silverware and plated ware. While a resident of Norwalk Mr. Parker pur- sued a special course of study under the direction of a well known oculist, Dr. Julius King of New York city, who enjoyed a national reputation, and after completing his course he was admitted to practice. He continued to reside in Norwalk for two years, actively engaged in his profession, and in 1886 he removed to New Haven, where he has become known as one of the expert optometrists of the state, while his fame has spread abroad through the many excellent articles which he has written for the National Optometrical Review and Journal and which have won the attention and consideration of the highest experts throughout the world. Mr. Parker has very attractive offices including splendid operating and reception rooms, at Church and Chapel streets, where he has a number of employes and is enjoying an extensive practice. He is now the dean among eye experts of the city in point of years of service and his standing in his chosen field of labor is indicated by the faet that he was for three years retained in the presideney of the Connectieut State Optometrical Society and was vice president of the national board of examiners of optometry.

Mr. Parker has been married twice. He first wedded Miss Hattie Dickerman of New Haven, a daughter of Enos Dickerman, a representative of one of the oldest New England

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families, prominent in both social and business circles for many generations. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Parker was celebrated in New Haven, June 15, 1881, and was blessed with four children. Flora N., born in Norwalk in 1885, is a graduate of the New Haven high school and of Vassar College. Olive I., boru in New Haven in 1892, is a high school gradu- ate and also attended LaSalle Seminary at Auburndale, Massachusetts. Martha died in Jan- mary, 1885, and Orlo D. passed away in October, 1907 in Sugar City, Iowa, at the age of twenty-one. While en route to the Pacific coast he became ill and passed away, as stated, his remains being returned to New York for interment. The wife and mother passed away March 1. 1907, leaving many warm friends as well as her immediate family to mourn her loss. On the 6th of February, 1909, Mr. Parker was married to Miss Margaret L. Coer of Waterbury, a daughter of James Coer of Waterbury and they have two children: Wilton Davis, who was born in New Haven, June 22, 1910, and Ruth, born October 16, 1911.

Mr. Parker is a member of the Young Men's Republican Club and usually gives his allegiance to the republican party but does not hesitate to cast an independent ballot as his judgment dictates. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and is interested in all of those projects and plans for the public good. He also belongs to the Masonic fraternity and to the Olivet Baptist church, in which he holds many offices. He is interested in all those forees which work for individual righteousness and for eivic betterment, and his own personal work has gained for him the high respect of those with whom he has been associated, while his developed powers have won for hiru an enviable position in professional circles.

FRANK L. ANDERSEN.

When in the shop where Frank L. Andersen does furniture repairing and upholstering, seeing him quietly at work in making old look like new, one would scarcely imagine that there were many exciting chapter's in his life record, but his experiences on many whaling vessels and as ship carpenter in sailing many seas have been most varied and ofttimes thrilling. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. February 8, 1864, a son of Lars Christian Andersen, who was also a native of that country and was a hatter by trade. The father was very successful in business and became the foreman for the hatter for the royal family of Denmark, spending his entire life in Copenhagen, where he passed away in April, 1895. His wife, Maria Andersen, was also a native of Denmark and came with a daughter to America, making her way directly to New Haven, where she resided until her death, which occurred in 1890, when she was about fifty-two years of age. She was the mother of eleven children, of whom four died in infancy, while four sons and three daughters are yet living and all are residents of New Haven.

Frank L. Andersen was the second eldest of the family. He was educated in Germany, he and an elder brother attending a Catholic convent in the province of Hanover, where he studied from the age of eight to fourteen years. He was then apprenticed to learn the trade of cabinetmaker at Bersenbrueck, Hanover, serving a five years' term of indenture. He not only received no wages in that position but on the contrary had to pay for the privilege of being instructed in the trade.

On the 30th of March. 1882, Mr. Andersen landed in New York in company with his brother, Edward Andersen. Ilis lack of a knowledge of the English language proved a some- what serious handicap, foreing him to follow various pursuits in order to earn a livelihood. After being employed in New York for three years he was one day strolling along the docks of the East river with several companions when one of the party suggested they all go to sea. The others assented and they proceeded to a nearby shipping office. The shipping agent sent the party to New Bedford, Massachusetts, to ship on a whaler but only Mr. Andersen and two of his companions reported. On the 14th of October, 1886, they sailed on the James Arnold of three hundred and eighty tons with a crew of fifty and an equipment of four whale boats. His experiences on whaling vessels carried him to all parts of the work. Then Mr. Andersen spent some time in Atlantic waters near the Azores and afterward sailed further south and doubled the Horn. At times the men would go ashore for pequin eggs which furnished a welcome relief from the salt food of the ship. At length the captain discovered that Mr. Andersen was handy with tools and set him to work about the ship, which

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A modern history of New Haven and eastern New Haven County, Vol. II, Part 56

Author: Hill, Everett Gleason, 1867- [from old catalog] Publication date: 1918 Publisher: New York, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company Number of Pages: 986

Author: Hill, Everett Gleason, 1867- [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 986